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  • magz :3@lemmy.blahaj.zonetoScience Memes@mander.xyzYOLO
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    8 days ago

    tbf this uses a lot of medical jargon that most people who aren’t doctors will never need. put simply, it’s a case of a man who put hydrofluoric acid in his ass (owie) while high from snorting cocaine

    edit: wrong acid, it’s actually way worse than i thought



  • i think for my purposes i’m fine with hosting that through a separate service, so instead of XMPP + mumble i would run polyproto + mumble (or some other voip solution, screen sharing seems to be a decent way away in mumble)

    but (as i understand it), polyproto isn’t a chat protocol per se, but more a protocol for federated message authentication. as an application of this protocol, they’re building polyproto-chat, which is a chat protocol. in theory, one could then also build a polyproto-voice so you can use the same account for both chatting and voice calls. i still think this is pretty far away, considering how young polyproto is, which is why my current vision is chat and voice as two separate services (which i also prefer because i imagine it makes the technology simpler and hosting easier)



  • unfortunately you can’t really get rich from knowing a bubble will happen. things like shorting, put options, bear certificates, and etfs with inverse leverage either have terrible risk reward ratios (you can basically lose infinite money from shorting, that’s what the whole gamestop/amc thing was about) or very bad long-term gains (bear certificates and inverse etfs usually only track day-to-day changes and generally fall in value when the stock they’re tracking fluctuates in price).
    of course, if you know when the crash is gonna happen, it’s a completely different story. then you can buy shorts/puts/etc just before the bubble bursts and laugh yourself to the bank (assuming the firms on the wrong end of those assets haven’t gone bankrupt, which is also a very real risk in a situation like this)


  • it’s because they’ve bought in to the capitalist myth. only smart people can make lots of money, so surely they must be smart. combine this with yes men and snake oil salesmen who make their money scamming rich people, and the result is a lot of rich people who are really into weird pseudoscience




  • afaik denmark isn’t just in favor, but they’re also responsible for pushing the legislation higher on the agenda after it was dropped last time.
    i think it’s because the current ruling coalition consists of the “social democrat party” (actually just red flavored populist centerish party) in an alliance with the “moderate party” (centrist flavored center-right wing party) and the liberal (as in libertarianism) party (center-right/right/conservative party), so basically denmark has been under a quite conservative government lately, despite the PM selling the coalition as “across the center”







  • i’m curious, what exactly is the advantage of getting a dumbphone vs just uninstalling social media apps from your existing phone, or just disabling internet access all together? doesn’t that achieve pretty much the same thing while still being able to keep things like navigation and being able to see when public transport is delayed


  • i mean yeah, that’s how polling works. you ask a representative slice of the population and extrapolate from there. did you want them to ask all 340 million americans?

    looking at another poll conducted by yougov around april 5th-8th, they had a distribution of 48% harris voters to 50% trump voters

    i think you’re somewhat right though, considering that in that same poll, 81% of “maga republicans” (unsure how they defined that) said they approved of trumps recent tarrifs, with 11% unsure and 7% disapproving source


  • i’m not sure if you meant the number to be interpreted literally, but isn’t 250lbs of fentanyl a lot. both psychonautwiki and substancesearch state that a “heavy” dose, which is where you start to seriously risk overdosing, (regardless of method of administration) is around 100ug. some quick back of the napkin math:

    • 250 lbs ≈ 1.1*10^11 ug
    • 1.1*10^11 ug/(100 ug/dose)=1.1 billion heavy doses
    • 1.1 billion doses/365 days≈3 million, i.e. assuming you take a heavy dose every single day if the year (which, again, will likely kill you), 250 lbs would be able to supply 3 million people for a whole year

    of course, this is assuming 100% purity, so these numbers probably change quite substantially if “fentanyl” is actually defined as “substance containing fentanyl”

    of course none of this is with the goal of defending whatever the fuck trump is doing, i just wanted to put into perspective that 250 lbs can actually be quite a lot for super potent substances like fentanyl



  • my understanding is:

    1. the emergency contact sends their public key to the owner of the vault
    2. the owner encrypts the key for the vault using said public key and stores the result on bitwarden’s servers
    3. the emergency contact can now request the decryption key from bitwarden, which they will receive either if the vault owner manually approves the request or if the request is not rejected within a certain amount of time
    4. the emergency contact can then decrypt the stored vault key using their private key, and use that to access the vault

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